Ungraspable Phantom
Essays on Moby-Dick| By: | John Bryant |
| Publisher: | Kent State University Press - CoreSource Plus |
| Print ISBN: | 9781606350683 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781631010309 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference The twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel’s problematic structure, its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and post-Freudian psychology, and its rhetoric. They also present fresh information on new areas of interest: Melville’s creative process, law and jurisprudence, Freemasonry and labor, race, Latin Americanism, and the Native American. Scholars, students, and readers of Moby-Dick will find this collection of essays fresh and insightful.